GNU bug report logs - #21072
24.5; inconsistent behaviour of `C-M-h (mark-defun)' in Emacs Lisp

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 06:13:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.5

Done: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #239 received at 21072 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>, 21072 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21072: Brave new mark-defun (and a testing tool)
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 14:46:23 -0400

>>> 1. What is the difference between (debug t) and (debug form body)?  From
>>> my understanding of the manual, there seems to be none.
>> Indeed, no significant difference.
> Oops, I meant (debug sexp body), then I changed it for some reason and
> forgot to change back to the correct thing.

Ah that changes everything: (debug (sexp body)) is quite different from
(debug t) since it says that the first argument is not an expression
(and hence shouldn't be instrumented).


        Stefan
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